Drove 15 hours from Nova Scotia, with snow coming down in Maine, then had so much fun cheering Dubi’s goal with 18000 Ranger fanatics! Would be great to meet you Carp at tomorrow night’s game, as well as anyone else who’s going to the game.

Been mulling this over in my own mind for a while: Don’t you think if they ban all headshots from the NHL fighting will be gone not shortly there afterward…

I mean whats the different between targeting the head with an elbow in open ice and punching some one in the head with a fist during a fight… wouldn’t the league be contradicting itself? Kinda like they do with awarding points for a loss…

Just food for thought, I personally would hate to see fighting taken out of the game… but something definitely needs to be done about those pieces of carillo/cooke….

Harvey, I think that’s the great hypocrisy here. Most people love the fights, or at least think it’s part of the fabric of the game. But most also want the elbows and other head shots out of the game. I am as hypocritical as anybody in that regard. But they will do everything they can to justify the fights because hockey people want fighting to remain part of the game.

Plus, as one old-time referee once said to me, “If they take fighting out of the game, and find that they need it, how do they put it back in?”

Carp, spot on. I’m a hypocrite in that regard, too, and I don’t think certain rough stuff can be taken out of the game….hello, it’s hockey, not baseball. But what’s the answer? Heck if I know.
But I do know this….Cooke’s cooke is beyond the beyond and should be easy to address. No sir, and good night….

Olga, somehow, someway, someday, I am going to find you, show up at your house with a month’s worth of Sunday papers…and then we’ll have fun and talk :) But there will be papers first. Beware of cabs pulling up with a woman covered in ink……